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Exhibit 906

MUR 7904, Hansjorg Wyss et al. (complainant Americans for Public Trust)

Exhibit 906 · Enforcement record

MUR 7904, Hansjorg Wyss et al. (complainant Americans for Public Trust)

The Commission failed by a vote of 2-4 to dismiss as a matter of prosecutorial discretion the allegations that Hansjörg Wyss, the Wyss Foundation, the Berger Action Fund, Inc., the New Venture Fund, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund made foreign national contributions and contributions in the name of another.

Respondents: Wyss, Berger Action Fund, Wyss Foundation, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund. FEC voted 6-0 to dismiss political-committee-registration allegations; failed 3-3 on no reason to believe and 2-4 on dismissal for the foreign-national and name-of-another allegations.

Source
Federal Election Commission
Date
certification 28 July 2022
Quoted from
MUR #7904 page, Summary > Disposition
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/matter-under-review/7904/
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding POL-5.11
Primary record The FEC ended enforcement matters against groups on both sides without finding violations. It split 3 to 3 in MUR 6396 and MUR 6696 (Crossroads GPS) and MUR 6589 (American Action Network); in MUR 7904 (Wyss, Berger Action Fund, Wyss Foundation, New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund) it voted 6 to 0 to dismiss the political-committee allegations and split 3 to 3 and 2 to 4 on the foreign-national and name-of-another allegations.